One of the most experienced emergency response experts in the country, who lives in Maine, says the nation is becoming less prepared to respond to disasters.

FEMA's acting director, David Richardson, testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday ...

Proposed legislation to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which goes by the same acronym, the Fixing ...

Pennsylvania’s emergency director urged FEMA to reconsider policy changes that could raise aid thresholds and cost shares, ...

Emergency management experts warned that suddenly shutting off the funding and resources FEMA provides to local and state ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a ...

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...

Rhetoric from Trump administration officials appears to be shifting more toward reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), rather than axing it entirely. While the shift has been ...

The head of FEMA offered no guarantees about the agency’s survival during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. He also ...

Local and state governments are gearing up for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season amid uncertainty about the future of federal disaster aid, but emergency management officials in Glynn ...

How FEMA could change President Donald Trump said in a June 10 press briefing that he plans to "start phasing [FEMA] out" after this year's hurricane season, which spans from June 1 to November 30.

The Trump administration wants to shrink the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and on Tuesday the president said the agency will start winding down after this year’s hurricane season. During ...